Photograph of a woodland area owned by J.F. Polome in Mayes County. Wildlife is a part of the ecosystem of timber growing. This tree can serve as a den or escape cover for certain types of wildlife. It can also serve as a food source for other types of wildlife. OK-4624-2

Photograph of Don Donahoo, DC and Norman Smola, Forester examining the growth progress of a yourng pine planted to re-forest an area is noted. This is a one year growth on seedling secured from the State Forestry nursery.

Photograph of Don Donahoo, DC and Norman Smola, Forester, observing the growth progress of a young pine planted to re-forest an area is noted. This is a one year growth on seedling secured from the State Forestry nursery.

Photograph of corn growing in bermuda sod to be cut for insilage.

Photograph of floodwater covering many acres of Pryor Creek bottomland. OK-3790-1.

Photograph of Lincoln Elementary third grade students on a bus on a conservation tour. OK-4285-5.

Photograph of Raymond Jarboe and Howard Roy checking the Whitaker State Home farm plan. The photo does not clarify the position of Raymond Jarboe, Farm Manager, Whitaker State Children's Home and Howard Roy, WUC, Soil Conservation Service. A few heads of cattle are in the pasture. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Raymond Jarboe, Farm Manager, Whitaker State Children's Home and Howard Roy, WUC, Soil Conservation Service. Farm Plan is being checked for pasture management practices. Note excellent forage on the ground. There is 158 acres of cropland used for silage and supplemental pasture; 445 acres of pasture land, Bermuda and fescue; 23 acres of native grass meadow in this unit."

Photograph of contour pasture ridges with Bermuda grass on the ridges.

Photograph of the plowing under of cowpeas as a green manure. Plowing being done on the contour. OK-6881.

Photograph of a Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] foreman using a copy of the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] cooperative agreement for on-the-job instruction to his enrollees. OK-6981.

Photograph of contour pasture ridges planted with Bermuda grass. OK-6570.

Photograph of Little Blue Stem grass, seeded in 1937 for a meadow.

Photograph of a panorama view of large contour stripped area four miles west and two miles north of Pryor. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Panorama with Okla-6868. Match together for view of large contour strip cropped area."

Photograph of a panorama view of large contour stripped area four miles west and two miles north of Pryor. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Panorama with Okla-6867. Match together for view of large contour strip cropped area."

Photograph of shocked barley on the contour so that the strip can be planted to cowpeas.

Photograph of a silting and farm pond. Both have rock riprapped earth dams.

Photograph of a spread of varying soil conservation practices practiced by a non-cooperator. The back of the photograph proclaims, "This is the contour strip cropping of a non-cooperator who decided to install soil-conserving practices after observing his neighbors' work."

Photograph of strip cropping with grain sorghum and alfalfa.

Photograph of a strip cropped area with wheat, oats, and sweet clover

Photograph of sweetclover buffer strip on the contour with wheat sown on the interval 4 miles west and ½ mile south of Pryor. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Sweet clover buffer strip on the contour. Wheat has been sown on the interval."

Photograph of Catalpa, locust, Osage, and mulberry trees on contour rows below a terraced field. These trees were planted in the spring of 1938 and have been cultivated twice. To be followed with later pictures.

Photograph of a UNIDENTIFED man plowing under cowpeas on the contour for green manure. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Plowing under cowpeas for green manure. Plowing being done on the contour."

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man using a pale to scoop up water from a farm pond 2 miles west and twelve miles north of Pryor. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Shows necessity for farm ponds and water conservation practices."

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing in a variable width contour strip of mixed bluestem grasses. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Variable width contour strip of mixed bluestem grasses. Seeded in spring of 1938. To be followed with later pictures."